You know I hear all the time from people how this are someones dog just ain't finding the hogs he should. They will say I think my dog is missing hogs. I notice a lot of times when hunting with folks how they are just on the go all the time and pushing the dogs from place to place and a dog might be in tune with you but you are not int tune with him and when he hears the wheeler moving off he will stop what he is working on and take off to keep up . This is a bad habit that most folks don't even realize they are doing it teaching a dog to break off a track he is on bad news . A lot of times a person just needs to clam down take a deep breath and take some time give the dog ample time to hunt a area without rushing the dog sometimes it takes a while for a dog to locate a hog in a ruff area of the woods. Don't keep your four wheeler going and rolling move up stop and wait and watch your dogs. Be in tune with your dog if you are not in tune with your dog are dogs then you are missing out on a lot of things . A man should know what his dog is doing as best he can at all times. Now I know people hunt different ways but this is the way I do it hunting off the wheeler.
Moving to fast is not a good thing all the time . Watch your dogs folks they will tell you a lot of things. With my dogs I can dang near tell you if hogs are in the area by that I mean with end 750 yd are so are out to their range by the way they are hunting and what they are doing . Lots of times my dogs will make rounds and after four five rounds they will come back and begin to act bored and just generally not acting right they are telling me hey lets get the hell out of here the hogs are not in this area are on this piece of property . This has happened many times with my dogs before I realized what was going on . Hell I would get mad at my dogs until I realized they were trying to tell me noting is here. Been many of times this has happened and I will drag up go to another piece of property and boom soon as they hit the ground they are gone and ten Min's later bayed.
So it pays to slow down and to get in tune with your dogs save you a lot of trouble sometimes and puts more pork on the table .
this is exactly what I always preach...slow is best when the dogs are casting out in circles around the 4 wheeler...if they take a track when they are hunting close then we are constantly reading the dogs...when they go off to work a track I stop and one of 2 things will happen...they will line the track out or it will be too cold to work out and they will come back and I move on...If I stop too long the dogs will cast deeper so I try to keep moving fast enough to keep them casting out a quarter mile in circles and they will continue to hunt with me...IT IS ALL ABOUT THE DOGS...I LIKE READING AND TELLING THE STORY AS THEY WORK...one day I will get that garmin so I won't have to look in my head to tell or feel the story...but it is fun doing it that way...
IMO this is how to bring out the best in a hunting dog...it is called dog handling...going to fast and not really reading the dogs at all times teaches the dogs to hunt closer and to only take hot tracks...I want the dogs to take all good tracks...and they know I am hunting with them so they are totally focused on hunting and not worrying about keeping up with me...
